Re: Dysfunctional at its best --- Mill Valley and the Alto Tunnel.
Author: Ex-Marinite
Date: 07-07-2015 - 09:03
The Odd Duck Wrote:
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> Note:The interesting thing when the report was
> being done, no body and I mean no body told BKF
> that is a narrow gauge tunnel built in the 1880’s
> instead they thought it was a standard gauge
> tunnel.
>
It's true that the tunnel was built as a narrow gauge tunnel, but it also carried standard gauge traffic for many years.
NWP usually used switchers to haul traffic on the Sausalito Branch, but I heard somewhere that they used an SD-7 once and it just barely made it. Is that true?